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Malian Kora Master Toumani Diabate at Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in New York

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2008-10-24 10:25:22 by WMCNewsDept. in World Music Central
...kora, "The Mande Variations" at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in NYU on November 2, 2008. The highly acclaimed World Circuit/Nonesuch CD, The Mande Variations f eatures innovative interpretations of traditional music and groundbreaking improvisations, the album has been hailed as an important and challenging work of African...
 
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Let Toumani Diabaté's kora music reign

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2008-11-03 20:54:43 by Kimberly Chun in SFBG: Noise
 
...kora playing on his February release, The Mandé Variations (Nonesuch), creeps and seeps inside, infecting you with its melancholy minor key and uneven intervals while surrounding you with the cozy pleasure of your insulated bedroom and warm flannel sheets The kora is a 21-string West African instrument often characterized as what the...
 
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Kora

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2008-03-30 23:44:14 by Dom Alessio in Who The Bloody Hell Are They? - New Australian Music blog
Kora - Burning Im not sure if Darwin could explain it, but for some reason Kiwis have an innate sense of dub and reggae - think Salmonella Dub, Fat Freddys Drop, Katchafire andThe Black Seeds. Its even got its own Wikipedia entry Kora stand out from the pack because they infuse their music with a heavy dose of rock and funk; theyre the support...
 
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Semi-obscure Instruments, Part I: The Kora

2008-06-03 01:07:55 by ivylander of MOG in MOG - Editor's Picks
 
...kora, and it made what I still consider to be one of the most glorious sounds God has ever breathed into a man-made object. Like a harp but with a rawness and a sense of mathematics built into the instrument that Bach would have treasured. Even the table-to-table roaming restaurant guy played bewitching patterns as he grinned broadly and...
 
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Fredrik + The Piano Creeps - NEW Kora Records releases + MP3, watch videos, tour dates

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2008-10-13 11:57:43 by bandweblogs in Band Weblogs
...Kora Records October releases are coming up! Ithaca, NYs The Piano Creeps and Malmo, Swedens Fredrik On October 28th, 2008 its the album Na Na Ni by Fredrik from Malmo, Sweden Fredrik is a new remarkable pop outfit, casually capturing the spirit of classic storybook drama through a highly personal, foresty brand of experimental pop. Despite...
 
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Toumani Diabate teaches you how to play the kora

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2008-02-25 00:09:00 by Tom Whitwell in Music Thing
 
Here's a wonderful clip of Toumani Diabate making kora playing look really easy . If that's inspired you to get started, start training, because you need to play football to play the Kora . (via Word Magazine , in whose March issue you can read a piece I wrote inspired by your comments on this post
 
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CD Review: Mamadou Diabate Douga Mansa

2008-10-13 19:56:49 by delarue in Lucid Culture
 
...kora virtuosos fourth cd, his first solo album , takes its title from his father Djelima Nfa Diabates instrumental that served for many years as the theme to the six oclock news on Radio Mali. Perhaps ironically, it was written to evoke the West African vulture, representing patienceas it waits for the death of its prey. Yet the piece is...
 
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The Inimitable Seckou Keita SKQ Return With Eagerly Anticipated New Album & Exciting UK Tour!

2008-04-22 04:58:56 by zestpr in Guest Music Bloggers
 
...Kora that can makes the West African harp-lute sound like a small band - Robin Denselow Guardian Seckou Keita is a brilliant live performer with stacks of charisma, and one of the few champions of the less-known and rhythmically rocking kora repertoire from Casamance in southern Senegal where he is from . - Lucy Duran Radio BBC3 They [the...
 
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JALI FILY CISSOKHO

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2008-10-02 04:19:00 by Con in A World of Music
...kora player coax a tall, slim man on-stage for the encore to sing praises and join in the on-stage celebrations. That gentle giant with the modest gap-toothed smile is Jali Fily Cissokho, a UK-based Senegalese kora player and yet another member of the clan of Casamance griots that gave us wild electro-kora family band Jalikunda Jali Fily...
 
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Seckou Keita Skq - The Silimbo Passage (2008)

2008-09-17 12:20:49 by Editor in Music Emissions Alternative Music Reviews